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The funny men stopped by Fallon to chat and have Eric Idle perform their classic Life of Brian tune “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” backed by The Roots. If you were ever wondering about ?uestlove’s whistling ability, this should make it obvious he is quite the whistler.

Vulture sums this bizarro thing up nicely: “Back in 2005, a couple of enterprising young Californians named J. D. Ryznar and Hunter D. Stair wrote and shot a series of videos for Channel 101 that took a hilarious (and fictionalized) look at the lives of late seventies/early eighties soft-rock stars, like Christopher Cross and Michael McDonald, as part of a series they dubbed “Yacht Rock.” Along the way, they created a mini-revival of the soft-rock genre [doubtful], one whose niche popularity among hipster types continues to this very day [again, not so much earnestly].”

When I heard Jimmy Fallon had booked Christopher Cross and Michael McDonald for his show, I honestly thought J.D. Ryznar and Hunter Stair would be playing dress up.  Alas, The Roots, as backing band, are the most exciting thing about this performance.

Yowzas. Not only did Mark-Paul Gosselaar show up as Zack Morris but he sign on for Jimmy Fallon’s Saved By the Bell reunion. The dude also dropped the old Zack Attack hit “Friends Forever” with The Roots. And he made mention of the show beginning in Indiana and then moving to California before calling time out. My head just exploded. Thanks internet.

Paul Simon welcomes us to summer with a tight, swinging rendition of his One-Trick Pony song the other night on Jimmy Fallon’s show.  Would have had this up yesterday, but golfing and all that.

The Roots sound great as his backing band — that slinky bassline out for a walk, the chickity percussion and when the horns jump in… man Paul Simon is one cool ass mofo.  There’s no denying that.  [via Fuel Friends]

It was no surprise when Jimmy Fallon got Mr. Belding to participate in his Saved by the Bell reunion.  After all, the guy has nothing going for him except making birthday calls to strangers.  But, since then he’s gotten Lisa Turtle and now AC Slater.

Zack, Jesse and Kelly shouldn’t be far behind, but I think Screech is going to be problematic.  We’ll see. If Fallon pulls this thing off the internet just might explode (if it doesn’t it certainly will whenever Scarlett Johansson goes topless).

These are the things you miss when you step away from the internets. Two days ago! Two! Jimmy Fallon started a serious effort to reunite the cast of Saved By The Bell. Of course we’re totally rooting this thing on.

One of the best birthday presents I ever got was Scotty D. paid Mr. Belding to call me up and wish me a happy birthday.  SRSLY!  You can have Belding wish your friend a happy birthday.  It was surreal and odd.  We chatted for about a minute before the awkward silence set in. The entire “conversation” consisted of me going OMG! OMG!  Actor Dennis Haskins reduced me to a 12-year-old incoherent fool. MORE »

This happened on Friday, I believe, but I took the weekend off and completely unplugged myself from the machine for the first time in god knows how long. Friends were in town visiting.  Two days away from the internet is like a lifetime of regret (wow, so deep, let’s get that on a bumper sticker or post card or Hallmark card).

Anyway, Fallon has certainly been off to good start as the new host of Late Night. He’s doing a lot of things differently and has a nice touch.  It helps that you can watch just the good parts and on demand, rather than staying up that late.  Segel, you may remember is writing the new Muppets movies.

In case you missed it,  the debut of Fallon’s show last night. 

Still haven’t seen it, but I’ll probably catch it later tonight.  Anyone see it?

Not bad, but not exactly a great first impression.  It’s like the person at the party you find intriguing from across the room and then they open their mouth and you couldn’t believe you wanted to talk to them in the first place.

Mo 3/2: Robert DeNiro, Van Morrison
Tu 3/3: Tina Fey, Jon Bon Jovi, Santigold
We 3/4: Cameron Diaz, Billy Crudup
Th 3/5: Donald Trump, Serena Williams, Ludacris
Fr 3/6: Drew Barrymore, Mario Batali

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I’ve largely held off from writing about Jimmy Fallon and his new online episodes leading to his late night talk show, mostly because I’ve never particularly found him to be that funny.  Which is different than thinking he could make a decent late night talkshow host.  In that case I think he has the requisite charm to succeed (in a manner of degrees, let’s be honest he’ll never be Conan, but he could be a pinch better than say Leno and certainly better than Carson Daly) on some level.

Anyone, on this recent clip, actress Felicia Day, whom you’ll remember from season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or more recently in Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog and even more recently in The Guild (a huge Dungeons and Dragons player btw) stops by to show Jimmy how to set up a World of Warcraft profile.  Is it me or does that fact that she’s into online gaming make her more dorky (dorky = cool)?

I can handle Jimmy Fallon in short bursts of five minutes, but anything over that and I’m out.

(Man that’s a clever headline.  I am so witty.)

The Death of Entertainment—or, as some call it, the date Jimmy Fallon takes the “Late Night” reigns from Conan O’Brien—will begin a bit earlier than expected.  Lorne Michaels decided to put Fallon on the Interwebs to “work out as many of the rough spots in his presentation as possible in performances on a website.”

Read: Try his damndest not to suck so terribly that no one watches “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”  I don’t think it’s possible.  I think Fallon is going to suck hard.  He’s worse than the Iraq War.

If this were any other host—or, indeed, anyone else in the entire fucking world—it’d be an interesting idea.  Michaels intends on posting Fallon’s abortions at 12:30AM every night to get the audience in the menstrual flow.  It affords the unfunny comedian a unique opportunity to generate a “voice” and begin compiling an audience.

However, I find it hard to believe anyone will boot up their PCs during Conan to watch Fallon giggle at his own jokes to the backdrop of a silent, resentful audience.

If this doesn’t get you a little bit excited for Christmas, which is about a week away, well then bah humbug to you dear sir or ma’am.

Everything about this is just great, from the goofiness of the song and childlike chords and piano part, to Jimmy Fallon not laughing, Chris Kattan’s head move thingie and Tracy Morgan doing nothing. It’s so bizarre and wonderful at the same time, much like Christmas.

Seeing as you won’t be getting any treats like this because of the writer’s strike we’ll take what we can get. Why is Tracy Morgan relegated to being the official dancing man when we know he can sing?

And yes, this will certainly be included in our 2007 Christmas music mix that we’ll be sending you off with on Friday for the holidays. Expect some old favorites, some new ones, some to get stuck in your head and hopefully some unexpected gems.